OUR GROUP 23 OF MORNING HOTSHOTS MARCH 23,2016

Eye Opener (1950)It is very noticeable that most of the great religious teachers or prophets prescribed nothing but a code of morals and ethics. All their teachings were characterized by an almost complete lack of formal religious observances.

They have pointed out the direction but never the path. If we follow other men’s paths, we fall over the same stones they fell over, and we got lost where they got lost. Each of us must carve out his own path, and the progress we make will be determined by our own efforts to advance.===============================Vernon Howard’s SECRETS OF LIFE

“Truth allows you to fail without being a failure. Did you everhear anything more happy, encouraging or amazing than that? Truth,Reality allows you to fail without being a failure.

If you have an old worn-out coat, you throw it out and put on a newcoat of any color, you have not failed, you have succeeded. Truthpermits you to take off all the cumbersome and wearisome garmentsof yesterday to take them away and feel afterward that you’re ina higher level than before, which you are because the old garmentswill be replaced by new garments.

We’re talking about you succeeding spiritually, succeeding by al-lowing everything that is wrong with your nature to fall off andfall away. Now, most people are unable to do that because theydon’t know the secret that you now know.”from a talk given 11/13/1988=====================

Twenty Four Hours A Day MARCH 23,2015

Thought for the Day

Strength comes from the fellowship you find when you come into A.A. just being with men and women who have found the way out gives you a feeling of security. You listen to the speakers, you talk with other members, and you absorb the atmosphere of confidence and hope that you find in the place. Am I receiving strength from the fellowship with other AA. members?

Meditation for the Day

God is with you, to bless and help you. His spirit is all around you. Waver not in your faith or in your prayers. All power is the Lord’s. Say that to yourself often and steadily. Say it until your heart sings with joy for the safety and personal power that it means to you. Say it until the very force of the utterance drives back and puts to naught all the evils against you. Use it as a battle cry. All power is the Lord’s. Then you will pass on to victory over all your sins and temptations, and you will begin to live a victorious life.

Prayer for the Day

I pray that with strength from God I may lead an abundant life. I pray that I may lead a life of victory.

==============================Since we are thinking beings andcannot stop thinking,and since Creative Mind receives our thoughtand cannot stop creating. It must always be creating something for us . The Science of Mind page 294

“We needed to ask ourselves but one short question. ‘Do I nowbelieve, or am I even willing to believe, that there is a Powergreater than myself?’ As soon as a man can say that he does believe,or is willing to believe, we emphatically assure him that he is onhis way. It has been repeatedly proven among us that upon thissimple cornerstone a wonderfully effective spiritual structure can be built.”Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 47

I placed one foot on the wide plain of death,

and some grand immensity sounded on the emptiness.

I have felt nothing ever like the wild wonder of that moment.

Rumi (from “Birdsong” translated by Coleman Barks)

ACIM Workbook Lesson 82 InsightsReview: “The light of the world brings peace to every mind.”and “Let me not forget my function.”My function is to stay in tune with the Holy Spirit. With the Holy Spirit, I am able to see through the eyes of Christ. Christ is One and includes the whole Sonship. As I am able to see the Christ, I am remembering the truth. When I remember the truth, I extend peace to the whole Sonship. This is my one true function. This is why I am here. Nothing else matters.

Let me remember my function. Let me feel the happiness that comes with joining with my true Nature and the true Nature of everyone. Today is the day of practicing this.